Conferences and Events
The Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis (EMC) hosts a variety of seminar series, including lectures by both invited scientists and departmental personnel. These seminars offer an opportunity for investigators and trainees to remain abreast of current advances in cancer research and biomedical science. These seminars are now available via Zoom and other online platforms.
Hosted Seminar Series
Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis Seminar Series
This biweekly lecture series, featuring outside speakers whose research interests relate to those of departmental faculty, is held on the first and third Thursdays of the month at 11:00 a.m. during the academic year.
Work-in-Progress Seminar
A biweekly forum for students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to present their research and to gain valuable feedback from colleagues at all levels is held on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at 11:00 a.m.
Upcoming WIP Presentations:
2/10/2022 Srinivas Animireddy, Ph.D. (B. Bartholomew Lab)
2/24/2022 Ren Ren, Ph.D. (X. Cheng Lab)
3/10/2022 Yang Zeng (T. Chen Lab)
3/19/2022 GSBS Spring Break
4/14/2022 Marcos Estécio, Ph.D. (EpiCore)
4/28/2022 Tolkappiyan Premkumar (F. Cole Lab)
5/12/2022 Rongie Fu, Ph.D. (H. Xu Lab)
5/26/2022 Candy Chen, Ph.D. (S. Dent Lab)
6/09/2022 Denisse Carvajal, Ph.D. (R. Wood Lab)
6/23/2022 Guozhen Gao, Ph.D. (M. Santos Lab)
7/14/2022 Sharad Awasthi, Ph.D. (N. Sahni Lab)
7/28/2022 Nandini Singarapu, Ph.D. (E. Richie Lab)
Related Seminar Series
Graduate Program in Genetics & Epigenetics (G&E) Monthly Student Seminar Series (GEM)
Held on the second Thursday of the month at 12:00 p.m., this series is organized and presented by students from G&E labs. Most GEM seminars feature research talks by two students.
Center for Cancer Epigenetics (CCE) Seminars
Many departmental faculty members are also members of the CCE, which has historically held bi-weekly seminars on Fridays at 11:00 a.m. during the academic year.
Enjoy Science Seminar Series
The Enjoy Science seminars highlight the research of faculty across MD Anderson and is held on 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 10:00 a.m.
John H. Blaffer Lecture Series
The Blaffer Lecture series, organized by the Department of Genetics, is held on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. during the academic year. It features prominent researchers from a variety of fields.
Conferences & Retreats
Graduate Program in Genetics & Epigenetics Retreat
Was held October 22-23, 2021
Center for Cancer Epigenetics Annual Spring Retreat
To be announced. Usually held in early May.
Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis Seminar Series Schedule, Fall 2021
Seminars will presented via Zoom
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Altered 3D genome structure and enhancer highjacking in cancer
Feng Yue, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics and Pathology
Director, Center for Cancer Genomics; Director, Center for Advanced Molecular Analysis
Duane and Susan Burnham Professor of Molecular Medicine
Northwestern University
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Novel mechanisms of genetic instability in cancer
Karen Vasquez, Ph.D.
Division Head and Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Doluisio Regents Professor
The University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Context-dependent roles for SWI/SNF subunit Polybromo-1 in cancer
Emily Dykhuizen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Purdue University
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Remodeling the chromatin landscape: SWI/SNF complexes in development and disease
Diana Hargreaves, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Richard Heyman and Anne Daigle Endowed Developmental Chair
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Thursday, November 11, 2021
On our recent studies of epigenetic inheritance and epigenetic dependence of H3K27M-mutated pediatric glioma
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor of Epigenomics and Molecular Biology in
Pediatrics, Genetics and Development, and the Institute of Cancer Genetics
Columbia University, New York
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
How enhancers work in health and disease: Stories about their RNA identity and their target-finding processes
Wenbo Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Lipid Metabolism in brain tumors and neurodegeneration
Jian Hu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Cancer Biology
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Wednesday, December 15
Title to be announced
Jiyang Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Member, Department of Computational Biology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis Seminar Series Schedule, Spring 2022
Seminars will presented via Zoom
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Composition-dependent form and function of biological condensates
Joshua Riback, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College Medicine
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Enabling a large-scale view of RNA biology
Eric Van Nostrand, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Exploiting the epigenome for precision cancer medicine
Kunal
Rai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Genomic Medicine
The
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Defining genome architecture at base pair resolution
James
Davies, D.Phil, MRCP
Associate Professor of Genomics
MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular
Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Anataomy of the long noncoding RNA
J.
Mauro Calabrese, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director,
Graduate Studies, Department of Pharmacology
University of North
Carolina School of Medicine
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Title to be announced
Stanley
Qi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of
Bioengineering and Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford
University School of Medicine
Thursday, April 21, 2022
The function and deregulation of CREBBP in B-cell lymphoma
Michael
Green, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of
Lymphoma/Myeloma Research
The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center